2015-01-14 17:29
Well, it's certainly been a while since I've posted anything but since I still have this blog thing in my name it seemed a better place to post something longer than just on facebook. There… Read More
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2013-08-07 19:04
My partner and I have been talking much about the horribly tragic death of two boys in New Brunswick a couple of days ago. KP is snake-o-phobic and this just confirmed her worst fears, espec… Read More
2013-08-07 11:53
I was hoping to get to this sooner but life intervened (and technology in the form of a sick computer), along with the second Egyptian revolution, which has been riveting, inspiring, frighte… Read More
2013-08-07 11:44
In a previous post I argued that too often Marxists fail to recognize the ways in which capitalism remains dynamic and continues to advance technologically and socially. This one-sidedness d… Read More
2013-08-07 11:40
Thoughts on Marxism & Technology Part I
There is a joke about Marxist economists that goes something along the lines of “Marxists have predicted five of the last four recessions&r&hell…Read More
2013-08-06 18:40
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I've often thought that the role of new media, social media etc etc has been und… Read More
2013-07-08 11:34
As I sat down to write this post the news of a tragic massacre of at least 32 Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated protestors, and the injury of 300 more was plastered all over the internet. That m… Read More
2013-06-14 14:30
Taking a moment to pray for peace
You gotta admit that it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Rob Ford is a bully and a hypocrite - quick to condemn the perceived weakness of others, to pounce… Read More
2013-06-03 13:00
I was thinking recently of an apocryphal story that was told to me many years ago as I sat in a dank basement drinking from a keg of beer. Apparently Lenin was listening to Beethoven with th… Read More
2013-05-26 13:00
Well, well, well, it’s been quite a week or two. Rob Ford supposedly smoking crack on video. Doug Ford’s past as a supposed hash dealer exposed – along with the drug relate… Read More
2013-04-16 11:30
Religion is the origin of all social thought – philosophy, science, law, ethics, etc. Like the social thought that we now consider secular, it is also imbued with a referent principle… Read More
2013-04-11 15:06
Marxism is a child of the Enlightenment. It was born of the revolutions in politics, philosophy and economy that shook Europe and America from the 17th Century through to the 19th Century. A… Read More
2013-04-02 10:15
This is really a thumbnail sketch of trying to wrap my head around a Marxist approach to religion. This really comes out of the experience, evolving from the approach pioneered in contempora… Read More
2013-03-22 12:00
It isn’t only in the nations, like the former USSR, that bureaucracy can use its control of wealth and power to defeat grassroots challengers. What happened with the rise of Stalinism… Read More
2013-03-21 13:19
I’ve come across more than a few obituaries for the SWP in the last week or so, particularly since a number of people split from the party and are now forming the IS Network. This arti… Read More
2013-03-15 10:30
The debate with the US ISO remains a source of much controversy, having ended with the biggest split from the Tendency to date. This makes it worth exploration and, I believe, it is an examp… Read More
2013-03-14 14:06
The tradition in the IST is to not intervene in the controversies and debates of other organizations. This was explained to me as a reaction against the practice amongst the early Trotskyist… Read More
2013-03-12 12:30
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the international working class suffered a series of decisive defeats. This put to a halt and set in reverse the post-war tendency for living standards to r… Read More
2013-03-11 18:04
On Sunday, March 10 the British Socialist Workers Party held a Special Conference to deal with the crisis that has been raging in its organization since its annual January conference. The tr… Read More
2013-01-29 16:50
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2012-12-11 16:18
I've been thinking about this a lot since the decision came down to oust Rob Ford over a "conflict of interest" technicality a couple of weeks ago. I have a feeling that this might be contro… Read More
2012-12-09 12:30
2012-12-07 20:57
The situation is moving fast in Egypt and it's hard to get a sense for what is happening on the ground. News media is reporting that President Morsy, 24 hours after saying he would change no… Read More
2012-12-07 19:04
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2006-06-07 11:16
Well, it's certainly been a while since I've posted anything but since I still have this blog thing in my name it seemed a better place to post something longer than just on facebook. There… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Happier days for the populist right
Well, it was indeed a circus at city hall yesterday. I wasn’t able to attend the performance live but did have the pleasure of watching some of it… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Cuts, what cuts? It's all about bad behaviour
photo credit: @HeartsOnTheLeft
Not one word about cuts. Not one word about privatizing garbage collection. Nothing about his refusal to e… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Everyone’s clamouring for Ford to resign: he lied, he smoked crack, he was wasted on the job, the city needs a competent administration. Balls, I say. I’ve seen competent adminis… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
There is the sound of champagne corks being popped and cheers in the streets. Everyone smiles at each other and winks, knowing that soon it will all be over. The hated burgermeister is falli… Read More
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